Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Who's using Gold front bead + V-rear notch blade? Also, reflex sights

Good stuff gang thanks. That revolver pic by Ed above looks nice. Custom I take it. I can't see how the good bead above might allow for "variance" in sight pic. Was the Keith No. 5 - w a front blade with a gold bar(s) inlay?

The Keith long range front sight was a Patridge blade with gold bars that started at the top of the sight.

The sight on the #5 was an elevation adjustable Patridge blade with a stepped flat face that gave two sight pictures depending on how the rear sight was aligned. A slick setup.

A gold bead is great for speed shooting but no good for holding elevation at long range. Same with a fiber optic front sight--a round ball front sight won't help you at distance.

Here's the Patridge sight on my Bowen Nimrod 45 Colt with three Keith-style gold bars set below the top of the sight. I really like it. Haven't had a chance to try it at long-range yet but it should work well for rock-bustin'

My bad on a typo above, I mean "CAN" see - variance can happen - due to glare. I had a Marlin 357 with a hood, it was good for 150 yd 2 liter coke bottles.....

O45, nice stuff, if you lived closer I would be bugging you to try some of the toys you have...Lol

Nice work above. Thanks for the info and post guys.

Is that the gold bead or red fiber optic?

Gold bead.

Don't think they have made these for many moons though.

Maybe someone has other intel.